53.11 Customization commands

The following command is used to record a user-defined command in the Abaqus journal file.

53.11.1 journalMethodCall(...)

This function may be used by a user-defined command to record itself in the Abaqus journal file.

For example,

def setValues( self, **kargs ):
        for arg,value in kargs.items():
            setattr(self, arg, value)
        from abaqus import journalMethodCall
        objPath = '%s[%r]' % (self.reposPath, self.name)
        journalMethodCall(objPath, 'setValues', (), kargs)

Note: Your command should not call journalMethodCall if the command changes the mdb using built-in Abaqus Scripting Interface commands, because built-in commands are journaled by default. A command that changes the mdb customData is one example of a command that should call journalMethodCall.

Path

journalMethodCall

Required arguments

objectPath

A String specifying the path to the object.

methodName

A String specifying the name of the method.

args

A sequence specifying the positional arguments to be written to the journal file.

kargs

A Python dict object specifying the keyword arguments to be written to the journal file.

Optional arguments

None.

Return value

None

Exceptions

None.